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Jane Usher Speaks Out: Taking Back City Hall from the Corrupt Political Machine

Written by Scott McNeely
Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:55
Jane Usher spent three years as president of the city Planning Commission trying to end pay-to-play development deals and bring intelligent growth to LA.She fought for rules that would protect the quality of life in neighborhoods, to stop the visual...
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Wendy Watch: Is the New City Controller Right in Calling the Budget "Fiscally Responsible"

Written by Scott McNeely
Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:55
Many commentators have called the city budget approved this week a work of fiction based on false revenue and cost assumptions, and warned it will lead to drastic cuts in city services and could force LA into bankruptcy within a...
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Trutanich: "We took over the city . . . We're going to change the way politics is played"

Written by Scott McNeely
Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:55
Carmen Trutanich's followers partied election night away at the Universal Hilton while the mayor and his good friend poor Jack Weiss huddled in a back room (appropriately) at Canter's Deli secluded from their glum financiers and called it an early...
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Happy Days Are Here Again...The Worst Is Over -- Maybe

Written by Scott McNeely
Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:55
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Obama Adminstration is jawboning signs of economic stability as hopeful indications that recovery is just around the cornerPersonally, I think things will get worse before they get better but here's a report from the Realtors at yesterday's...
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Back Slaps, High Fives, Heroes -- and Catastrophe for LA

Written by Scott McNeely
Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:55
With its $530 million deficit erased with a few strokes of a pen and the budget balanced with the kind of creative accounting that get executives of public companies thrown into jail, the LA City Council is naturally in a...
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